Boy, this is so subjective . . .
I decided I'd have one of these 210 combos.
Tried the Mesa Venture (too hard sounding), the Fender Bassman 400 (good for the price, but not THAT good), and the Super Redhead (sounded too SWRish, too much top end), and the Eden Metro. Played it for five seconds and bought it. It just hit me right.
Two channels (SS and tube), a big enough, vented cabinet to handle a four string on its own, and EDEN builds their own drivers. Don't use the enhance, the onboard compressor is actually more like one of those 'speaker saver' limiters. Separate effect loops for each channel, tuner out, fan-cooled, footswitch included with casters.
I like the tone, and I've never seen a set of cut/boosts where small changes make BIG shifts in the tone. I run basically flat with a little bass boost. It was big enough for four-string, but pushing low Cs was a bit much for a cabinet the size of a fat Twin Reverb, so I added an Eden D115xlt and now the low B-string notes fill out beautifully. Eden loads the Metro 10s to 8 ohms, so you can add two more 8 ohm bins to load it to 720watts @ 2.6 ohms, a BUNCH for a combo.
And Eden makes every conceivable cabinet for their heads: 2,4,6,8-10s, 1 or 2-12s, 1 or 2-15s, and a single 18.
The one thing I can say about Eden, is that across their line, they all seem to have been built and designed by somebody that really understood what bass was supposed to sound like.
For smaller still, I want my next setup to be their DC112xlt/112xlt stack.
There are LOTS of amps out there. I was fortunate that here in Nashville I could go from one store to another and actually try each one with my ALEMBIC. I can't give you any better advice than to do just that, but I'm very happy with my Metro stack.
J o e y
